Regulation 6 Closure of schools on advice of medical officerI1

Where a F1health board competent person advises an education authority that, in order to prevent the spread of disease or other danger to health, a school under their management should be closed temporarily or that certain pupils should be excluded from that school for a specified time or, where that school is a boarding school, that the pupils should be confined to the school premises for a specified time, the education authority shall forthwith close that school or exclude or confine the said pupils, as the case may be, accordingly.